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The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its guidelines on liquidity buffers following a four-month public consultation period and a public hearing. These guidelines, which build on CEBS's Recommendations on Liquidity Risk Management, elaborate upon the appropriate size and composition of liquidity buffers to enable banks to withstand a liquidity stress for a period of at least one month without changing their business models.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a consultation on amendments and additions to CEBS Guidelines on interest rate risk from non-trading activities (IRRBB) published on 3 October 2006. The proposed changes are aimed at improving the management of IRRBB risks by institutions, and to promote the convergence of supervisory practices in reviewing and evaluating institutions under the Pillar 2 assessment process. The consultation runs until 27 September 2013.

These Guidelines set out high-level guidance, addressed to both credit institutions and investment firms, related to interest rate risk arising from non-trading activities (IRRBB). The paper sets out supervisory expectations regarding the measurement, management and governance arrangements of IRRBB and its reflection in the ICAAP. The guidelines also define the supervisory outlier test requirements for the assessment of institutions’ resilience to interest rate changes.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its third annual Report on the convergence of supervisory practices across the EU. The Report reviews consistency in the application of the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) in order to promote comparable supervisory approaches and consistency in supervisory outcomes across the single market. This is necessary for a level playing field, effective supervision of cross border groups, and to identify supervisory best practices.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today its final Guidelines on the supervision of significant branches. Prompted by the increasing demand to establish branches across the European Union, these Guidelines are designed to facilitate cooperation and coordination between the Competent Authorities involved in the prudential supervision of significant branches of EU institutions established in another Member State. In particular, these Guidelines will facilitate cooperation and coordination of supervision of the largest and systemically important branches, the so-called ‘significant-plus’ branches.